Congressman: Minnesotans 'Screwed Us'

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Congressman: Minnesotans 'Screwed Us'
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 | 11:36 AM

Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., isn't one of those people waxing rhapsodic about the need to help our fellow citizens in need after last week's 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. On the contrary, according to this report in the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader, he thinks the $250 million bill Congress passed to rebuild the bridge was a taxpayer ripoff because it exceeded the normal $100 million limit for emergency relief projects.

The folks of Minnesota "discovered they were going to get all the money from the federal government and they were taking all they could get,” Kanjorski said at an economic summit at the University of Scranton. They used the tragedy “to screw us,” he added.

At the same event, Kanjorski declared that we're not just living through a seemingly endless era when people lack confidence in the performance of the government. No, he said, we're the brink of civil war. “I’m in fear for the survival of the republic,” he said. “People want to get their deer rifles out and go to the barricades.”

I haven't seen any barricades lately, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

http://blogs.govexec.com/fedblog/2007/08/congressman_minnesotans_screwe.php

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. the ME FIRST AND ONLY mentality

I've seen a lot of this. It's the attitude that no one else matters. Frankly, that sort of attitude is not going to solve the challenges that face us.

[stillcool]

2. Mis-directed big time...

why it is so many people love to blame ordinary people for things far beyond their control amazes me. On the other hand, the response to Minnesota vs. the response to Katrina speaks volumes..and I too, am wary of a civil war...only because..divide and conquer seems to be working so well in Iraq. A home style Salvador Option is certainly not unthinkable.

[Olney Blue]

3. This doesn't sound like a Democrat talking.

:wtf:

[stirlingsliver]

4. I Was Gonna Say The Same Thing

This guy is a Democrat??

He sure doesn't sound like a Democrat to me!

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. This guy have a primary challenger yet? n/m

[Elidor]

6. Gee, that's pretty big of him

I didn't realize he cut the check himself, from Pennsylvania funds. What an ass.

[rodeodance]

7. but, raises the question. why did they get extra?

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. How did he vote on FISA?

[dflprincess]

9. All right, who blabbed and gave our plot to screw the feds away?

We figured we'd get by with it because everyone thinks we're so nice.

[Solon]

10. Anybody have an e-mail address for this asshole so I can tell him to STFU...

This motherfucker can go fuck himself with a corrugated, rusty, piece of sheet metal while swallowing buffalo chips.

[BlooInBloo]

11. As if PA, or any other state, wouldn't do exactly the same.

[Odin2005]

12. This asshole calls himself a Dem???

This Minnesotan to Kanjorski: FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!!! Sounds more like a "Drown government in a bathtub" Puke to me. :grr:

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14. Another article on it:

http://www.timesleader.com/news/20070808_08_FHL_SUMMIT_JL_BIZ_ART.html

“They discovered they were going to get all the money from the federal government and they were taking all they could get,” he said. In essence they took the opportunity “to screw us,” he said of the funding grab.

He criticized the “oligarchy” of Mexico for creating conditions to force its people to cross the border into the United States for a better life and also spread the blame to businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

“We’ve created economic servitude in the United States,” Kanjorski said. “We don’t call them slaves any more but that’s what they are to us.”

A self-described “strong border person,” the congressman said closing the border would “have a hell of a jolt” on the nation’s economy because it would eliminate the labor source for low-paying and menial jobs taken by the illegal immigrants.

[Mnpaul]

13. In the past Pennsylvania received 3X the federal dollars

What a jerk. Look at the census nubers here

http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/544_federal_funds_summary_distribution_by_state.html

Millions of dollars
1997
Mn 20,088

Pa 65,314

1998
Mn 20,399

Pa 67,350

Only Ca, Fla, Tx. and NY get more money

[JVS]

15. I will join you Kanjorski in fighting for the honor of Pennsylvania!

[nolabels]

16. Still looking for that joke about having a bridge they want to sell me

Or were they going to sell it to somebody else :shrug:

One of those contradictions in space (maybe it's called an enigma? ). Anti-choice but pro-labor, Anti-war but pro-capitalist, he even kinda sounds more confused than me :crazy:

Paul E. Kanjorski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_E._Kanjorski

Paul Kanjorski on Abortion
Democratic Representative (PA-11)
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:NB5a3kNUzkEJ:www.ontheissues.org/PA/Paul_Kanjorski_Abortion.htm+U.S.+Rep.+Paul+Kanjorski+voting+record&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Representative Paul E. Kanjorski (PA)
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H3454103

Paul Kanjorski
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Kanjorski#Privately_funded_travel

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17. Sounds like a DINO (nt)